At 01:57 PM 4/20/2008, William O. Yates wrote:
Recently started using vi macros.
When attempting to use one which accessed the external shell, got the
following message:
"The ! command is not supported when the secure edit option is set."
When attempting to ":set nosecure" got:
"set: the secure option may not be turned off."
When attempting to "set nosecure" in my .exrc file, got:
set nonumber
.exrc, 44: set: the secure option may not be turned off
.exrc, 44: Ex command failed: pending commands discarded
Looking through all the man pages, vi references, tutorials, and the the
oreilly vi "bible",
can't find anything...
Is "set secure" a compiled in setting?
>From FreeBSD vi man page:
-S Run with the secure edit option set, disallowing all
access to
external programs.
and
secure [off]
Turns off all access to external programs.
..william.o.yates...hackware.at.tru2life.net...tru2life.info...
So you are using ! for external commands and not the like :w!
I would look at any defaults on the system that may be causing vi to run in
secure mode, also check the mounted filesystem you are on is set to noexec.
-Derek
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